“ The teacher must adopt the role of facilitator not content provider. ”
Through others we become ourselves.
~ Lev S. Vygotsky
A word devoid of thought is a dead thing, and a thought unembodied in words remains a shadow.
By giving our students practice in talking with others, we give them frames for thinking on their own.
Learning is more than the acquisition of the ability to think, it is the acquisition of many specialized abilities for thinking about a variety of things.